癌的治疗通常有外科疗法,化学疗法,放射线疗法以及免疫疗法,把四种疗法结合进行称综合治疗。然而用这些综合治疗的疗效还不满意。最近有新的温热疗法,试用于临床。现将癌的温热疗法的理论的背景和临床应用的现状简介如下:温热疗法的历史对癌试行温热治疗的早在公元前两千年时医圣希波克拉底以及在印度书籍都记载有烧灼治疗法。近年来Bush 记载了用两次丹毒发热使肉瘤消失,为最早提示了温热疗法有选择性杀灭癌细胞效果的可能性。到1960年代后半期,在欧州,证明温热疗法对癌细胞有选择的毒性。于1975年在华盛顿召开了第一次温热疗法的国际专题讨论会,日本也在1978年召开了 The treatment of cancer usually includes surgical therapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy, and the combination of four therapies is called comprehensive treatment. However, the efficacy of these comprehensive treatments is still not satisfactory. Recently there was a new warming therapy that was clinically tested. The current background of the theoretical and clinical application of the cancer thermotherapy is summarized as follows: The history of thermotherapy The trial of thermotherapy for cancer was documented as early as the 2nd millennium BC in San Hippocrates and in Indian books. There is a burning treatment. In recent years, Bush has documented the disappearance of sarcoma with fever caused by two erysipelas, which was the earliest indication of the possibility that thermotherapy can selectively kill cancer cells. By the second half of the 1960s, in Europe, it was demonstrated that thermotherapy had selective toxicity to cancer cells. The first international symposium on thermotherapy was held in Washington in 1975 and Japan was also held in 1978.